Wire garment-stay.



G. A. BARCLEY WIRE GARMENT STAY.

APPLICATION HLED FEB. 20, 1915.

1,150,327. I Patented Aug. 17, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 20, 1915. Serial No. 9,503.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GAYLoRD A. BARCLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in thecounty of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wire Garment- Stays, of which the following is a specification. V My invention relates to improvements in wire garment stays wherein a plurality of comparatively thin wires are formed intooverlapping, interlocking, and mutually supporting loops; to produce a stay without abrupt bends which has universal flexibility, and the full stiffness of a stay formed of a less number of thicker wires, but without the tendency of such heavier wires with abrupt bends, to crystallize and break when submitted to frequent or extreme fiexure.

I attain these objects in the stay illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in whichl V Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is an edgewise view of the same.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in both views.

I preferably employ four wires to form this stay, which I have designated a, b, and 0, (Z; each wire is formed into semicircular loops 6, f, extended lengthwise of the stay,

and each semicircular loop has formed at each of its terminals a lateral oval loop 9, it, also shown oppositely formed at 2', is; all the semicircular loops are of equal size, and equally spaced apart to adapt two or more oppositely formed and oppositely placed wires, to overlap the semicircular loops 6, f,

alternately, and to interlock, and mutually stiffen and support the lateral oval loops 9, 7a and i, is, when joined as shown in Fig. 1. Such structure affords mutual supportin the alternate overlapping semicircular longitudinal loops, which is materially enhanced and stiffened by means of the interlocking of the oppositely formed transverse oval loops at each terminal of the semicircular loops.

It will be understood that the wires a, b, are formed into loops 6, and 2', 7c, and are joined to form a pair; and that the wires 0,03, are also made into loops f and g, h, of like dimensions and equally spaced but oppositely formed also joined in a pair; so

that the wires 0, (Z, may be placed opposed to the wires a,

b, and be adapted to be joined into a stay of four wires to produce the stay herein described.

. It is recognized that it has heretofore been proposed to construct a stay of interlaced loops, but such proposed stays have been of objectionable thickness because in the proposed assemblage of the loops the wires were arranged in pairs, so that successive pairs of loops stiffened and protected succeeding pairs of loops and thus prevented the resulting stay from being flattened down to the minimum thickness. As distinguished from this result, the present invention provides a series of single interlaced loops arranged in such relation that the final resulting stay is of minimum thickness, being substantially only the thickness of a single wire. The loops in this improved structure, as above described, are formed from four wires arranged two at one side of the stay and two at the other side of the stay, the loops being arranged with a lap of one wire at one side of the stay succeeded by a lap of one wire at the other side of the stay, which second loop is then succeeded by a loop from the second wire of the first side of the stay and that lap is then succeeded by a loop of the second wire of the second side of the stay and then the succession of loops is repeated, so that any one loop is interlaced between two loops, one from each of the two wires at the other side of the stay from the first mentioned loop.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A wire garment stay, comprising a plurality of pairs of wires, the wire of each pair being formed into successive longitudinally arranged substantially semicircular loops, each semicircular loop terminating at each end in a transversely extending substantially oval loop, the oval loops of a wire of each pair successively alternating with the oval loops of the other wire of that pair and the longitudinal loops of each wire of each pair successively over-lapping the longitudinal loops of the other wire of the respective pair, the oval loops of one pair being extended laterally in one direction and those of the other pair laterally in the op posite direction, and said oval loops being interlaced so that the succession of oval loops consists first one of a wire of one pair,

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one of a wire of the other pair, and then Signed in the presence of two subscribing one of the second Wire of the first pair and Witnesses.

7 then one of the second Wire of the second GAYLORD A BAROLEYV pair, so that each oval loop is preceded by 7 an oval loop of one'wire-of the opposite pair, Witnesses? and is followed by an oval loop of the sec- MARE C. MAGER, 0nd Wire of said opposite pair. SARAH WOLFE.

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